This is a bug in the fix for bugs: 268336 273718 The ebuild for adobe-flash on amd64 now checks to make sure that at least one processor in /proc/cpuinfo has the lahf_lm instruction. In some rare cases a multiprocessor machine will have one processor that has the lahf_lm instruction and another processor that lacks that instruction. When firefox gets migrated to the processor that lacks lahf_lm, and adobe-flash is installed, firefox crashes. I used taskset to ensure that using Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have multiprocessor amd64 computer with at least one processor with lahf_lm and one processor without lahf_lm. 2. Install mozilla-firefox and adobe-flash. 3. Run and use mozilla-firefox until it crashes. Actual Results: mozilla-firefox crashes Expected Results: mozilla-firefox does not crash I suggest that the ebuild check for any processors that lack lahf_lm instead of ensuring that at least one processor supports lahf_lm. This will prevent unexpected crashes, but it is not my prefered solution. I have aliased firefox="taskset 0x0000000A firefox" to prevent firefox from using the lahf_lm'less processor. In addition to the basic solution above I would like to see warning message when this situation has occurred along with override flag that would allow the user to provide their own solution such as taskset. Sorry I don't have access to the affected machine right now, so I can't post 'emerge --info'. Also this is my first bug report, so I apologize in advance for non-conformity, improper placement, etc.
Note to self: I think this comparison will do the right thing, checking if *any* of the processors are missing the flag instead of just the first one: if grep '^flags' /proc/cpuinfo | grep -qv 'lahf_lm'; then ...
I have put the basic *any* versus *all* fix in for now. The warning and override will take a little more work, so I'm leaving this bug open for now. First stage fixed in adobe-flash-10.0.45.2-r1
Updating summary and priority. Unfortunately since adobe-flash-10.1 is released 32-bit only *again* I'm not sure when this will need to get fixed. But we'll hang on to this bug a while longer.
Thank-you for the fix. Unfortunately gcc -march=native started to compile using that flag so I gave in and found a perfectly identical processor to swap out. The fix looks like it will work but I no longer have a machine to test against if adobe-flash comes out in 64 bit again.
